Protests in France against the new prime minister
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Protests are taking place across France over the appointment of Michel Barnier as the new French prime minister, after an election that resulted in a National Assembly without a majority. We hear from Nathalie Oziol, an MP with the left-wing La France Insoumise party. Also in the programme: the leaders of the UK and US foreign intelligence agencies speak together in public for the first time ever about the international world order being under threat; and Cocteau Twins' Simon Raymonde discusses his memoir.
(Picture: French left parties call for rallies against President Macron's politics in Paris. The poster reads "No thank you''. Credit: Photo by Yoan Valatv/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming to you live |
| 0:06.4 | from London I'm James Kimara Sami. They think they should be in government. |
| 0:15.0 | They think they should be in government. |
| 0:18.0 | Instead they have been on the streets. |
| 0:20.0 | Tens of thousands of supporters of left-wing parties in France have been protesting today |
| 0:25.0 | about President Macron's appointment of the veteran right-wing politician Michel Barnier as |
| 0:30.3 | Prime Minister. You know the world, we've never been here to your world, |
| 0:36.0 | we've bershicheh monsieur you, everyone hates Michelle bagne, that was a chant in Marseille, |
| 0:42.0 | the location of one of more than 100 marches across |
| 0:45.1 | the country. |
| 0:46.1 | Well, it's more than two months since I was in Paris for Newsau, reporting on the inconclusive |
| 0:50.8 | result of a snap parliamentary election election which saw a left-wing |
| 0:54.0 | alliance a new popular front win the most seats but fall well short of a majority. |
| 0:58.7 | It's taken that long an age in French political terms for President Macron to name a Prime Minister |
| 1:04.8 | after he rejected the new Popular Front's choice of the little known economist Lucy Caste. |
| 1:09.4 | The new Popular Front insisted their programme should be adopted in full, even though they won barely more seats in the election than a centrist block loyal to President Macron and a populist right block led by Marine Le Penh's national rally. |
| 1:24.0 | Well, the three-time presidential candidate has agreed to support Michelle Barnier, provided, she |
| 1:28.8 | says, he pursues tough security and immigration policies and respects her party MPs. |
| 1:35.0 | Among those attending the rallies today was Natalie Oziol, an MP with the left-wing |
| 1:39.8 | La France-Anseumiz or France-Unbowed Party. Before going to a march in the southern city of Montpellier, |
| 1:46.2 | she gave me her reaction to the nomination of Michel Barnier as Prime Minister. |
| 1:50.5 | This is a democratic candle. This is outrageous and you may well you understand that |
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